Monday, September 24, 2012

Lies

“Even when we are involved in the most uncommon experiences we still do the same thing: we fabricate the greater part of the experience and can hardly be compelled not to contemplate some event as its ‘inventor.’ All this means: we are from the very heart and from the very first—accustomed to lying. Or, to express it more virtuously and hypocritically, in short more pleasantly: one is much more of an artist that one realizes.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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